Hi Axel,
If there was money available, would you be interested in doing the port of GOBE
Productive? If yes, when would you be available?

I think he already has a lot of work to do...
Plus there is currently an OpenOffice.org port just started, and I'm sure
Abiword would like a Haiku maintainer if you volounteer :^)
And who knows, maybe a GP port will show up anyway some day, says a little bird
:-)

Personally, I'd *much* prefer having Gobe than either of the others! (:-))

I haven't worked much with GP, I played around a bit when it was first
released for BeOS. Later I've looked at it again after I wrote some
sophisticated documents, and helped some other people with formatting
problems and stubborn software in their sophisticated documents. I can't
say I found that GP would address these problems well. In a modern
office software, I would hope that it addresses common problems, i.e.
includes a database of reference literature, an image database, style
handling, auto-generated parts, and powerful layouting. GP didn't seem
to offer sophisticated features in any of these areas, or lacked them
completely. There is a concept of text-styles, but it seemed nowhere
sophisticated enough. I didn't think it would be useful for creating
bigger documents. That being said, I am not a fan of OpenOffice either.
Particularily the layouting of images sucks big time. And the need to
manually update parts of auto-generated items.